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Wireless card offers a hint at the future of flash memory for pros.
Though it's still only a consumer product at this point, one of the most interesting innovations to come down the pike in the last year has been, undoubtedly, the Eye-Fi Card. Basically an SD card with a miniature antenna embedded inside, the Eye-Fi Card lets you beam your images to a computer or the Web without wires, cords or cables. I got a chance to try one out recently, and while certain limitations-such as its SD Card format and its somewhat pokey wireless transfer speed-prevent it from being classified as a pro product, give it time. I think you'll soon be seeing this technology in products targeted to professionals.
What makes me say this is Eye-Fi's recent deal to license their technology to Lexar Media, a memory card company with long roots in pro photography. The partnership with Lexar should definitely expand the Eye-Fi technology to larger-sized CompactFlash (CF) cards and is bound to produce faster wireless transfer speeds and more flexibility.
In its current incarnation, the Eye-Fi Card is targeted...